Bryan Cantrill Explains DTrace

GoogleTalksArchive · Talk · 1 h 18 min · 2012 · YouTube title: Dtrace Review

Why it's here

HN regards it as a gem of a technical talk that tackles a fundamental debugging problem and shows a new technology solving it.

What it covers

Bryan Cantrill's 2007 Google Tech Talk on DTrace, showing how dynamic tracing improves debugging of both development and live production systems. It includes a vivid war story about tracking down a problem on a Sun Ray server.